Iranian nuclear experts are also offering
compromise proposals reported by IPS journalist Gareth Porter but not yet any
major media outlets:

"Iran
has again offered to halt its enrichment of uranium to 20 percent, which the
United States has identified as its highest priority in the nuclear talks, in
return for easing sanctions against Iran, according to Iran's permanent
representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Ali
Asghar Soltanieh, who has conducted Iran's negotiations with the IAEA in Tehran
and Vienna, revealed in an interview with IPS that Iran had made the offer at
the meeting between EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton and Iran's leading
nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili in Istanbul Sept. 19."

And
so, there are clearly initiatives underway to build bridges, but so far, media
outlets, eager to fan the flames of confrontation and polarization, have ignored them. Is it ignorance or
something worse?

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